page_title: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
section_title: Related publications and performances
hierarchical_section_title: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives / Related publications and performances
caption_attribution_description: English: David Eagleman and Brian Eno onstage at the Sydney Opera House, 2009
context_page_description: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, also simply called Sum, is a work of speculative fiction by the neuroscientist David Eagleman. It is in press in 28 languages as of 2016. The Los Angeles Times described it as "teeming, writhing with imagination." Barnes and Noble named it one of the Best Books of 2009.
context_section_description: In June, 2009, Eagleman and musician Brian Eno performed a musical reading of Sum at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
  In May, 2010, Sum debuted as an opera at the Royal Opera House in London. The music was composed by Max Richter, with choreography by Wayne MacGregor.
  A September 2009 episode of Radiolab featured a discussion with Eagleman and readings of two of the stories by actor Jeffrey Tambor.
  The scientific journal Nature originally published one of the stories in Sum, A Brief History of Death Switches. This story was subsequently anthologized in Futures from Nature.
  The audiobook of Sum was narrated by Eagleman as well as by Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.  In 2010, Canongate Books, released an iPhone/iPad/iPod enhanced eBook version of Sum, integrating the audio book with the text.
  Readings from the book are featured in a number of episodes of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio programme "WireTap":
caption: David Eagleman and Brian Eno performing Sum at the Sydney Opera House, June 6, 2009.
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